SANTIAGO, Chile, Jul 17, CMC – The Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC) Thursday said that inflows of Foreign Direct Investment (FDI) in Latin America and the Caribbean (LAC) totaled US188.962 billion dollars last year.
ECLAC said that the figure represents a 7.1 per cent increase over the previous figure last year.
It said that the 2024 figure represented, on average, 13.7 percent of the region’s gross fixed capital formation, and 2.8 per cent of gross domestic product (GDP), below the levels recorded in the 2010s, when it accounted for 16.8 and 3.3 percent, respectively.
“At ECLAC we believe that Latin America and the Caribbean must harness foreign direct investment to achieve more productive, inclusive and sustainable development. Using FDI as a strategic tool within productive development policies will be key to achieving this,” said ECLAC’s executive secretary, José Manuel Salazar-Xirinachs, at the launch of the annual report, “Foreign Direct Investment in Latin America and the Caribbean 2025”.
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